"sober up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sober up.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sobers up [present, singular, third-person], sobering up [participle, present], sobered up [participle, past], sobered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sober up (third-person singular simple present sobers up, present participle sobering up, simple past and past participle sobered up)
  1. To become sober; to cause to become sober. Categories (topical): Alcoholism, Drinking Translations (to become sober): ἐκνήφω (eknḗphō) (Ancient Greek), صَحَا (ṣaḥā) (Arabic), desembriagar-se (Catalan), 醉醒 (zuìxǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), 醒酒 (xǐngjiǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), vystřízlivět (Czech), ontnuchteren (Dutch), malebriiĝi (Esperanto), selvitä (Finnish), se dégriser (French), se désenivrer (French), ausnüchtern (German), ξεμεθώ (xemethó) (Greek), הִתְפַּכֵּחַ (hitpakkéaḥ) (Hebrew), kijózanodik (Hungarian), desebrieskar (Ido), siityä (Ingrian), tar as meisce (Irish), 酔いが覚める (yoi-ga sameru) (alt: よいがさめる) (Japanese), trzeźwieć [imperfective] (Polish), wytrzeźwieć [perfective] (Polish), desembriagar-se (Portuguese), трезве́ть (trezvétʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отрезве́ть (otrezvétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), desemborrachar (Spanish), desemborracharse (Spanish), desembriagar (Spanish), desembriagarse (Spanish), nyktra till (Swedish), sobri (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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